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Sunday Morning Dance Party

On November 5, James and I celebrated our anniversary. I can’t believe we’ve been married for 4 years, and together for 5! It was fun to look back on some of our first emails…

I also wore a memorable shirt. It was one that I picked up for really cheap in Germany. When James and I first started talking and liking each other, he complimented me on it one Sunday evening. This wouldn’t have much significance, except that I had gotten all dressed up that Sunday morning in a cute skirt and blouse to get his attention. Then, in the evening, when i had just thrown some clothes on after a long day, he compliments me! I couldn’t believe it! This was also the shirt I was wearing when James proposed to me.

Instead of going out, we cunningly kept the boys on a pre-daylight savings time and had them in bed at 6. James ordered take-out from the China Wok and picked it up on the way home from work. Our activity for the evening was going to be playing with legos, and possibly designing our dream-home with them. When James got home, I had Liesel asleep in her favorite wrap. We decided to eat with her in it so we knew she’d stay asleep. After enjoying all the food on our plates, we used our chopsticks to eat all of the food out of her hair that I’d accidentally dropped on her. Her head was nice and shiny from all the grease!

After taking Liesel out of the sling, she did wake up, and she was cranky. We took turns calming her, but we didn’t get much built out of our legos before we were too tired to continue. Oh, well, we enjoyed the evening, and we’ll have plenty other opportunities to hang out.

Liesel’s Life, Never a Boring Moment

The boys are always making sure that Liesel is well taken care of. They’d pile 20 blankets on top of her, keep toys surrounding her, and drag her everywhere if I would let them. They always want me to show her pictures in the books we read, and they are disappointed that she doesn’t drink from a sippy cup yet. When we were leaving a friends house, I put Liesel down so that I could put on my shoes. I told Shiloh to go out with Papa. He freaked out and ran over to Liesel because he was afraid I was going to leave her there. He refused to go out the door until I came with Liesel. Last night when we came home, they were all asleep in the car. When I went to take out Liesel, I noticed that Aslan was holding her hand. They love their baby a lot!

The other day when Liesel was especially attentive to them, they made a line of stuffed animals to stare at her. It took a lot of convincing to get them to put the animals about a foot away from her face, instead of a couple of inches, but finally they conceded.

Branding our Baby

After a really REALLY long nap, Liesel finally woke up. When I took off her clothes because her diaper had soaked through, a lego piece fell out. We have no idea how it got there, but since she was sleeping on her back, it left an awful mark. She didn’t seem at all bothered by it, but James and I felt horrible! The redness and the imprint went away after a couple of hours.

Sunday Morning Dance Party

Sometimes we just can’t help dancing. Not that we’re very good at it, but Liesel likes to have music playing. Yesterday we ended up dancing like crazy to The Killers and The Raconteurs. James held two kids and I held one. Laughter exploded from the boys (even if it doesn’t look like it in the photos.) Every time we put them down they begged for more. At the end we were exhausted, but we managed to get the first picture of the 5 of us together! I love it, but it’s staying under wraps for a while because we plan on sending it out on our first ever Christmas card! If you would like to be on our Christmas card mailing list, please send your mailing address to briannacorinne@yahoo.com.

Random Pictures

These were too cute for me to leave out!

That’s all for now! Don’t forget to send me your mailing address if you want a Christmas Card!